Why was Hexblast destroyed???

In the patch notes, I saw that Hexblast is becoming a cooldown skill, which means the well-known Hexblast-mine archetype won't work anymore.

Just... WHY???

I was planning to league-start with that build. But beyond my personal disappointment, the build wasn’t even overperforming. It was a solid league starter and had the potential to be viable for endgame if you invested enough currency into it. Still, in every league, there were many other skills that outperformed it by a wide margin (like Molten Strike of the Zenith in Settlers).

And while Molten Strike of the Zenith only got a base damage nerf, Hexblast was made practically unusable.

WHY???

Coz its VISION

I'm wondering the same thing.

Here's my feedback thread about it and suggested changes over what they've made currently.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3787232

Thats their genius "VISION" of balance from POE 2, where is everyone playing on one playable build (lightning spear)

Decisions made by people who do not play the game and have no Interest In doing so. That's the major issue here and just think they get paid a lot of money to meddle and mess things up.

THey didnt like how for past 10 leagues everyone and their mother was leaguestarting as Hexblast Mines, so they just "removed" it from the game ^ ^

RF next?

Probably because it was strong as hell in Sanctum league starts

Because this is one of the big foundations, and problems, of POE....."meta shake-up", how they like to call it; which doesn't always only target the meta skills, no, everything is affected.

GGG is adamant about destroying well performing skills so that people play something else. In theory, if the concept wasn't flawed AF from the start, this should be fine. Major problem is that they never buff enough alternatives. There are hundreds of skills in POE, and if you're lucky, only 10 are worth the effort. 90 something percent of the skills are as useless as they have been since their introduction.

Honestly, I gave up trying to understand how GGG makes decisions for this game. This is beyond the "vision" (a poor meme at th8s point), this is like a self proclaimed wiseman telling you to trust them because they know better, but will not elaborate further.

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TheSymposium#4994 wrote:

Probably because it was strong as hell in Sanctum league starts

Cool story, people will abuse sanctum with other builds, what a problem.

I don't think any other builds come close in clear speed, but maybe there will be new builds this league